California · Private foundation
Wellcome Leap Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $146M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 171
- Grants FY2025
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $687,262
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,582,571
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 76
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $732M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Wellcome Leap Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 120 | $132M | 55% |
| FY2024 | 76 | $63M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $481k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $6,495,140 | 2 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $3,753,059 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $3,428,758 | 1 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $2,253,143 | 2 | 0% |
| Sibel Health Inc | $2,250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $2,148,859 | 2 | n/a |
| THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge | $1,942,380 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,731,222 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | $1,595,962 | 2 | n/a |
| Duke University | $1,263,055 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $6,495,140 | 2 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $3,753,059 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $3,428,758 | 1 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $2,253,143 | 2 | 0% |
| Sibel Health Inc | $2,250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $2,148,859 | 2 | n/a |
| THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge | $1,942,380 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,731,222 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | $1,595,962 | 2 | n/a |
| Duke University | $1,263,055 | 2 | 0% |
| Emory University | $1,167,896 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $1,051,475 | 2 | n/a |
| Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative Inc | $1,003,260 | 1 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Inc | $930,324 | 1 | 1% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $779,872 | 2 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $754,676 | 1 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $720,696 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $687,262 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Chicago | $608,881 | 1 | 0% |
| Yale University | $554,119 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $441,701 | 1 | 0% |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | $233,400 | 1 | 0% |
| California Institute of Technology | $199,629 | 1 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $187,840 | 1 | n/a |
| Wellesley College | $105,564 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents Univ of California | $39,676 | 1 | n/a |
| Northeastern University | $16,178 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $3,707 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 115 recipients with no EIN on record ($160M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wellcome Leap Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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About Wellcome Leap Inc
- How much does Wellcome Leap Inc give?
- Wellcome Leap Inc reported 171 grants totaling $145,907,370 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 76 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Wellcome Leap Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Education (33%), Science & Tech (7%).
- Who are Wellcome Leap Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Vanderbilt University ($6.5M), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($3.8M), Cornell University ($3.4M).
- Does Wellcome Leap Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wellcome Leap Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is Wellcome Leap Inc based?
- Wellcome Leap Inc is based in CA.
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